Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Cinder isn't your average princess in the making. She's a cyborg who, instead of a glass slipper, is outfitted with an uncomfortably small robotic foot that her abusive adoptive stepmother hasn't prioritized for an upgrade. Cinder is the best mechanic in the sprawling metropolis of New Beijing and could easily jury-rig a replacement appendage, but she doesn't have money for the parts because her stepmom has co-opted Cinder's earnings to dress her two biological daughters in the finest gowns for an upcoming ball. Being a "wirehead," as her stepsister says, Cinder isn't allowed to attend the coronation-cum-dance-party of the handsome Prince Kai. The closest she'll get is fixing her stepfamily's hovercraft.
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenage girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son.
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty, " a young woman learns that her grandmother had a secret past tied to the Holocaust.
Beastly by Alex Flinn A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
Cinder isn't your average princess in the making. She's a cyborg who, instead of a glass slipper, is outfitted with an uncomfortably small robotic foot that her abusive adoptive stepmother hasn't prioritized for an upgrade. Cinder is the best mechanic in the sprawling metropolis of New Beijing and could easily jury-rig a replacement appendage, but she doesn't have money for the parts because her stepmom has co-opted Cinder's earnings to dress her two biological daughters in the finest gowns for an upcoming ball. Being a "wirehead," as her stepsister says, Cinder isn't allowed to attend the coronation-cum-dance-party of the handsome Prince Kai. The closest she'll get is fixing her stepfamily's hovercraft.
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenage girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son.
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty, " a young woman learns that her grandmother had a secret past tied to the Holocaust.
Beastly by Alex Flinn
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.